[Quilla]

Thought y'all might find this interesting. I'm amazed though that many don't understand the difference between a blog and and a forum.

[Rodney King]

I'm not sure what his point is. What is so stunning about it? Is he saying that The top Dem sites are all communities, but most of the top conservative sites are straight blogs? And this is stunning because FR is so important? OK. I just don't see what is stunning. There is a difference between the way the right and the left use the internet. Here are some possible explanations:

1. FR is such a good community, there is no need for any other to rival it.

2. Republicans have lives. We don't just hole up in our apartments with 10 cats and freak out about conspiracy theories. Therefore, we only need one "community" whereas the loser Dems are on the web precisely because they crave community since society has rejected them as the losers they are.

[pabianice]

"Of the twenty-four liberal blogs in the top quintile, Dailykos, TPM Café, Smirking Chimp, Metafilter, BooMan Tribune, MyDD, and Dembloggers are full-fledged community sites where members cannot only comment, but they can also post diaries / articles / polls. By comparison, there are no community sites among the top twenty-four conservative blogs. None, zip, zero, nada. This is particularly stunning when one considers the importance of the Free Republic community to the conservative netroots.

Really? That's news to us. Just another Leftist Liar...

[Cat loving Texan]

"Of the twenty-four liberal blogs in the top quintile, Dailykos, TPM Café, Smirking Chimp, Metafilter, BooMan Tribune, MyDD, and Dembloggers are full-fledged community sites where members cannot only comment, but they can also post diaries

Conservatives don't post diaries. Those who have lives don't have time.

[Tacis]

While I deny that I have turned anti-American scumbag crapweasel, I do admit that I watched some CNN the other afternoon. There was a segment that appeared to be a regular involving two fairly civil (yeah, I know, but they were) females, each with a lap top screen in front of her, and they were examining what a number of differnent blogs said about a given subject.

It was interesting and fairly well done. They mentioned some blogs I've not read and, for the most part, described the blogs pretty well, e.g., "the conservative blog ...," "the liberal blog...," and so on. They did not catagorize the Kos blog (extremist left wing, anti-American, neocommunist, destry America and capitalism, I believe), but I may not have caught the first mention of it.

If media only slightly left of center (like Fox, for example) haven't got something like this in the works, they sure ought to.

[prognostigaator]

slow bump

[jpl]

Just a couple of weeks ago I was having to explain to my mother the difference between a blog, a bulletin board, and a plain old web page. Bad media information had her thinking that pretty much every page on the world wide web was a "blog".

[Matchett-PI]

bttt